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$ *.php | grep google
How can I print the filenames and linenumbers next to each match?
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Grep can display the filenames and the count of lines where it finds a match for your word.
To create a new file, use the cat command followed by the redirection operator ( > ) and the name of the file you want to create. Press Enter , type the text and once you are done, press the CRTL+D to save the file. If a file named file1. txt is present, it will be overwritten.
grep searches for occurrences of strings matching a regular expression in some text and prints lines that contain any of those occurrences. cat , on the other hand, prints all lines from the sources of input specified in the command.
The -n ( or --line-number ) option tells grep to show the line number of the lines containing a string that matches a pattern. When this option is used, grep prints the matches to standard output prefixed with the line number.
grep google *.php
if you want to span many directories:
find . -name \*.php -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n -H google
(as explained in comments, -H is useful if xargs comes up with only one remaining file)
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You shouldn't be doing
$ *.php | grep
That means "run the first PHP program, with the name of the rest wildcarded as parameters, and then run grep on the output".
It should be:
$ grep -n -H "google" *.php
The -n flag tells it to do line numbers, and the -H flag tells it to display the filename even if there's only file. Grep will default to showing the filenames if there are multiple files being searched, but you probably want to make sure the output is consistent regardless of how many matching files there are.
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